Monthly Archives: October 2013

Yesterday we got back from a great conference experience! Besides the educational part with many inspiring speakers we also got to meet the awesome developers community here in South America with lots of cool and interesting people!

We also held a lightning talk where we spoke about the Rails Girls Summer of Code and our project.

StarTech ConfTomorrow the Punchgirls are flying to Santiago de Chile to participate in one of the most important conferences of Latin America. We are super excited about the possibility to meet and listen to lots of amazing and knowledgeable people! We’ll also be giving a lightning talk about the Rails Girls Summer of Code program on Friday.

We’ll be tweeting about our conference experience while we’re there. Be sure to say hi if you’re there! 🙂

We just realized today that our summer of code officially ended on Friday, but for us this is not the end, but the start of our new tech careers. We will continue working on our project and we’ll keep updating our blog frequently. We are working hard on implementing the design for our Job Board and we’ll be presenting it at RubyConf Argentina. We’re very excited about it!

We want to congratulate all the other teams for working so hard throughout the summer! And thank you to all the sponsors that made this possible! We hope you have enjoyed participating as much as we have and that we will be able to give back to the community in the future 🙂

Remember that this is not a goodbye so keep visiting our blog and check out our GitHub repository to accompany us in our progress!

MockupsToday we have been making mockups for the search result page and the developer dashboard. None of us have any design background but it’s fun to play around with what we want our application to look like. Cecilia is already a pretty experienced user of Inkscape, so while she is drawing Mayn is pointing and saying stuff like “more left!”, “closer to that other thing!” etc. We’ll be working on making mockups for all our views before moving on to the implementation of our design.

Frustrating refactoringToday we wanted to put the communication with Stripe in a separate module to clean up our code a bit. It proved to be more difficult than we imagined. Not only the refactoring, but we also discovered a bug we haven’t been able to fix yet.

Surprise surpriseToday we also had a fun experience that we will tell you more about in a few days! 🙂

Adding message to the applicationWe completed the add message to application feature.

Stripe error handling When our Internet connection got cut today we realized that we were not handling Stripe connection errors. We now provide users with an understandable error message if this should occur.

Bio to developer profileThe developer can add a small bio (200 characters) to their profile that will be showed together with the rest of their profile information when they apply for a job.

Personal noteDeveloper can now add a personal note to each sent application.

You have mail
The day started really well! We received a huge package from the Rails Girls Summer of Code team in Berlin. It contained all sorts of cool stuff from our sponsors: T-shirts, laptop sleeves, pens, stickers, sweets, notepads, sunflower seeds, shower caps, you name it! We were like two little girls opening lots of presents 😀 Thank you so much to our organizers and sponsors!

Instructions
As people are starting to show more interest in trying out our project we took some time updating the README in our repository with instructions on how to install and run our application locally.

Organizing forms
As we were using a lot of the same forms in different places, and with different JavaScripts we decided to clean it up a bit. We divided our forms into partials. Now our code is much more reusable and we only have one script file to manage the form input.